Wed., 3/4

Do Now—Exercise 35B—copy verbatim:

Alyattes – Alyattes, king of the Lydians, led his army to meet the Median army as they fought their way towards Asia Minor. The Lydians fought the Medians for five years. The stalemate was eventually broken with some help from Nebuchadnezzar II.

Cambyses I – Cambyses was a Persian vassal to king Astyages, and was chosen by the Median king to marry his daughter, Mandane. Cambyses and Mandane were the parents of Cyrus the Great.

Nabonidus – Nabonidus, the army officer who helped negotiate the treaty between the Medes and the Lydians, ended up as king of Babylon after the multiple short reigns of Nebuchadnezzar II’s kin.

Read:

p. 458, ¶ 2 – p. 462, ¶ 3.

HW—Exercise 36A—Your answer (entry ticket):

Review today’s reading and spend twenty minutes, total, answering the following two questions. Do not copy others; write your own answers. You can write bullet lists, incomplete sentences, or up to five (total) complete sentences:

1) How was Cyrus II able to get both the Persians and most of the important Median officials on his side in an attack against Astyages, the high king of Media and Persia?

2) How did Cyrus II manage to lay siege to Sardis and take control of Lydia?

See especially p. 459, ¶ 7 – 461, ¶ 2 for help…